Franklin County Tribune (Union, MO), 1956-09-20

              fii J ! THE MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY Established In the Year 1865 UNION, FRANKLIN COUNTY. MISSOURI, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1956 10 CENTS VOLUME 91-No. 30 FRANK Celebration planned for E & R Church in St. Clair HIGHUW POST OFprt' -. ...u.s.mfiiL. "; Sullivan man shotson-in-law Sunday His thumb slipped off the hammer of a .12 gauge shotgun last Sunday when he shot and killed his son-in-law, said Morgan Tucker, age 47, of Sullivan. Tucker had driven into St. Louis in his pick-up to give blood to his wife, who was in the hospital. Accompanying him from Sullivan was his 20-year-old daughter, Bonnie, who has been estranged from her husband. Also there was Bonnie's 20-month old daughter, Judith. They arrived in St. Louis and went to the home of Charles Tucker, a son, on South 3rd street, Bonnie's estranged husband, Harry Fehl, was standing on the sidewalk when Tucker drove up. Fehl, a 32 year old factory worker rushed up to the truck and punched Tucker in the jaw. Tucker said he pushed Fehl away, grabbed a shotgun shell out of the glove compartment, ran to the rear of the truck, got his shotgun and loaded it. Fehl also came around the truck with his hand in his pocket threatening, "I'm going to kill you." Then someone shouted "Don't do that" and Tucker said he looked quickly around and his thumb slipped off the hammer. Mrs. Fehl said she was seated in the truck when Fehl approached and threatened to kill her father. She became frightened and ran into the hallway where her brother lives. Another witness, Clynton Price, 22, who lives on South 8th street said he was visiting relatives nearby when Fehl appeared. "I'm going to wait for Tucker and kill him," Price quoted Fehl as saying. "I'm going to do what I said I was going to do." Price said that when Tucker drove up, Fehl ran toward the truck and clove through the win clow. Tucker pushed him away and loaded his shotgun. Price said he yelled to Tucker, "Morg, don't do it." The shooting followed, Tucker was booked by police on a charge of suspected homicide He was a mechanic in Sullivan. A great fifty-year celebration is being planned for September 23rd at the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church in St. Clair. The cornerstone of this active and growing church was laid on September 2nd, 1906. Anniversary services will begin at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Reverend A. B. Gaebe and Reverend Herman Koenig will direct the morning services. After the noon meal Reverend Paul Rahmeier will assume charge of the program. The history of the church and its growth makes interesting reading. Some eight months after the cornerstone was laid, the white clapboard building that was the original church adorned the site, and the formal dedication was held in May, 1907. T h Reverend Theodore Briun was the fisrt pastor, nd he stayed until 1909. Charter mmbrt wan: Ernest Redhage, Ed Panhorif, William Kramme, John Zingra, Hanry Obermeyer, Julius Pan-horst, Charles Neiheiser, Herman Kramme, Gust Redhage, William Kamper Sr., Louis Dierking, William Berghorn, Charles Oerman, C. F. Bor-berg, and William Kamper, Jr. Five charter members are ttill living. After Reverend Braun left, H. J. Melhorn served two years until 1911. While he was there a house on the church property was converted into a Sunday school build ing. A great many notable im provements have been made on the church plant since. Other pastors after Melhorn were: C. Fritsch, 1913-14; J. 0. F. Symenski, 1914-15; H. F. Koenig, 1919-23; F. E. J. Schenk, 1923-26 and from 1929-43; Martin Seybold, 1927-29; Otto Press, 1923-31; and A. B. Gaebe from 1943 to 1953. The present pastor is Thomas Whit- comb. Under the leadership of these men, church records show 194 baptisms, 97 confirmations, 45 weddings and 76 funerals. Jaycees sponsoring movie to provide funds for library The trustees of the Union Public library are making a concerted drive for funds to be used for current library expenses. Money is needed for salaries, the purchase of t'hildrcns books and other library supplies. Accordingly, the Union Jaycees have underwritten the drive and are sponsoring a movie at the Wil liams Theatre October 2nd and proceeds will be donated in their entirety to the library fund. Jaycee ollicials said the name of their movie was "The First Tex an starring Joel McCrea and Felicia Farr. The Tribune will carry complete information about the drive next week. .tiisA. " "XI" N V-t- j my- V? 4Zp few m il " 'ilu v;Ld if A m Better mail service is now predicted for residents of Union with the recent installation of a mail box at the rear of the post office on Church Street. Shown picking up the mail for the mail bus are, left to right: C. T. Wib-bemeyer, Cliff Schuenemeyer, B. V. Thur-man, and driver K. W. Roach. The box was placed there for any mail to be sent out of town after the final six o'clock dispatch in the evening. Letters dropped into the box after the office closes will be picked up at 8:30 p.m. by the bus and taken into St. Louis for routing. The mail runs daily from St. Louis through Union to Lebanon and return. (Dickey's Studio) Circuit Court Problem child has officials pondering what to do next Back in custody is Larry Nixon. 11-year-old problem child of the juvenile division. Latest escapade is breaking into a Washington residence and starting a fire. Larry, who has been placed in a succession of foster homes in the county, is too young to be sent to Boonville, only correctional institution open to him. Authorities thought llirv had solved the problem some time ago when Jefferson City records bore out his store that he was really 13 years old. A further check of records revealed, however, that two boys born the same day had been named Larry Nixon and that the 13-year-old boy was an entirely different child, born in St. Louis Jaycee wives to hold meeting Monday The Union Jaycees wives will meet Monday night, September 24, at the home of Mrs. James Straat-mann. The fleeting starts at 7:30. Child welfare program in County ranks among best Members of the Franklin County Child Welfare Advisory Committee heard praise from Wayne Corzine, district supervisor, for the county's welfare program, at the annual dinner-meeting held at Scully's Restaurant on Highway 66 Tuesday night. Franklin County ranks as one of the best in the eight-county district, he said, principally due to the sympathetic interest of the County Court and civic organizations, the high standard of adopt- The Week's Weather Temperatures extremes, rainfall and Bourbeuse River stages (feet above normal) as reported by U. S. Weather Bureau Observer Cornelius Sieges. Rainfall is measured at 7 a.m. daily. Thus, rainfall for Thursday is actually rainfall between 7 a.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday. A trace is an amount too small to measure, For the week ending Tuesday, Sept. 18. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday High 101 101 93 98 79 Low Rain 72 72 72 62 64 58 40 T 31 T lve proceedings and the under standing shown by the magistrate and prosecuting attorney in protective cases. Also praised were Miss Helen Hundhausen, welfare director for the county, and Mrs. Alice Bardot, child welfare worker. Miss Louise Fairchild, state child welfare supervisor, spoke to the group on the work of Child Welfare agencies and led a ques- tion-and-answer discussion that fol lowed. Mrs. E. A. Stierbcrgcr of Union, chairman of the Franklin County Child Welfare Commission, pre sided. Other members of the com' mission present were William Ec- kelkamp and Louis Bleckmann Geo. Koelling, fourth member, was unable to attend. Present were Roy Kissick, former member; Magistrate R. H. Schaper, Prosecuting Attorney James A. Cole; Judges Wm. Cowan, Arthur H. Pehle, Randolph Weirich of the County Court; Miss Hundhausen, Mrs. Bardot, Mrs. John Strohmey-er, Mrs. Emil Neiheiser, Mrs. Bruce Meeker, Miss Mary Lou Reed, Miss Verna Mae Wieda, of the Franklin County Welfare staff and Edward E. Stierberger, Jr. Members of the Advisory Committee who attended were Mrs. B. E. Hammer, Mrs. Mary Harris, Mrs. Wm. Coibon, Mrs. Harold Middle-ton, Mrs. A. A. Steinbeck, Rev. Gustav Bloom and Mrs. Edward Berkel, chairman. Magistrate Court Fishing sans license makes real sad story Two penny-wise anglers from St. Louis paid $33.00 in fines and costs trying to save the $2.25 which a fishing permit would have cost. Mrs. Evelyn Skibicki of St. Louis loaned her 1956 permit to Tom Graham, St. Louis, and was charged with illegal transfer. Graham was charged with fishing with improper permit. Both entered pleas of guilty and the woman was fined $10. Graham's fine was $1 and each paid $11.00 in costs. Two other St. Louis women entered pleas of guilty to charges of fishing without permits. Mrs Shirley Nelson and Ella Zimmer each paid a total of $12, of which $1 was a fine and $11 was costs. Burt Hawkins of St. Clair enter ed a plea of not guilty to a non support charge on Sept. 13 and was released on $500 bond. His case is set for Sept. 26. Sonny Ray Heads of St. Clair was fined $25 and costs on charge of petit larceny. He was ac cused of stealing a billfold and $12 in cash from Carol Sue Anderson. Kenneth Bailey, arrested in St Louis Tuesday on a charge of common assault upon Dorothy Aytes in Gerald on Sept. 8, was released on $500 bond that afternoon.Top fines for careless and reck' less driving were assessed against James H. Marshall, St. Louis, $75; Herbert F. Brickmeyer, Ft. Wood, $60; Leroy J. Armstrong, St. Clair, Robert E. Moore, Gerald, Melvern C. Jones, Jr., Robertson, $50; Ken neth H. Scheer, Washington, $25; Loyd D. Curtman, St. Louis, $35; Ernest H. Buril, Washington, $15 Ten-dollar fines for careless and reckless driving were given to Kenneth L. Chester, Seneca; 01 iver L. Davidter, Creve Coeur; Clifford C. Reiss, St. Louis', Wal ter W. Russell, St. Louis; Shelby T. Wilson, St. Louis; John C. Bowers, Kansas City, Kan. The following paid fines of $5: Gordon Freeman, Watscka, 111.; George Tomazi, Jennings; Henry B. Adams, Godfrey, 111.; Silas Dykstra, Grand Hazil, Mich.; Chas. W. Fischer, Pittsburg; and J. D. Schwartz, El Paso. Overweight fines were Kenneth M. Moreland, St. James, $15; Glenn J. Sims, Springfield, $10; and James C. Walthell, Lincoln. The following fines were assessed for Public Service Commission violations: M. F. Lietzen, Bonner Springs, Kan., $100 for no authority; Henry Dee Long, Salem, Virginia, $1, Bradley A. Johnson, Pontiac, $10 and Kenneth W. Eining, Robertson, Mich., $5 for no Public Service Commission sticker; Thos. F. Hodges, Pagedale, Mo., $10 for excessive speed. Sport season opens with Softball, volley ball games High School sports will get a teams were composed mostly of good send-off here this week with volunteers. a county softball tournament at very nine lniormauon nas come St. Clair, and a volley-ball game his way about the quality ot tne betwen Union and Hermann next other teams, and the New Haven Tuesday night at the Memorial team in particular. He would ven- Auditorium. ' turc no opinion ahout tne outcome The softball tournament started of that game. He said he imagined Wednesday night of this week on that the St. Francis team would the St. Clair grade school softnau, ne considered as UKeiy contenders field. It will run through Saturday for the championship. night. Both boys and girls teams . Those on the Union girls teams are playing, and both Union teams are: Carol Helling, Anne Busch, will be matched against New Ha- Rosemary Copeland, Carol Taggert, ven Thursday night starting at 7 Mona Hinson, Jane Lichte, Ruth o'clock. Ellis. Norma Skornia. Virginia Union coach Louis Lorch said Pointer. Jackie Thief and Joyce softball was not greatly emphasized woolen. as a sport in Franklin county, and The boys team is composed of . that he doubted if many of the JSeil Lottmann, Wally Temrne, Sid teams had been meeting for reg- Denny, Wayne Henderson, Bill ular practice sessions. Hardv, Roger Grob, Pete Parker, He said Union teams held their jjm r0ips Eddie Hayes, Arnie first practice session Monday of Krekel, Gene Crews, Kenny Crews, this week, and both boys and girls Larry Copeland and Denny Heeger. St. Clair is matched with Sum- DWI charges gave parolee year in jail Louis Clifton Hinson, Union, was ordered to serve out a ttnteme of ont yur in county jail for driving whilt intoxicated when Judge Joseph T. Tat revoked his parol Monday.Also in county jail is Philip Martin Tierney, 16, an escapee from Bellfontaine Farms in St. Louis. Authorities have been notified of his arrest on the night of Sept. .14 at the Lighthouse Cafe where he was discovered breaking into cars, but so far have done nothing.' He was serving time for car theft. Cleo Jolly, accused of stealing $1100 from Louis B. Eckelkamp while he was employed as a filling station attendant at the Diamonds, is in jail awaiting a report from accountants who were employed to check records. He was arrested on August 9. The State dismissed a charge of concealing mortgaged property against Hubert Adkins. Also dismissed this week were two divorce suits, Rita Halmich vs Sylvester Halmich; and Joyce Stuckey vs. James Albert Stuckey A suit to construe the will of Cora Bates, filed by Vernie Em mons, executor, against Gertrude Eveland et al, was heard Monday and taken under advisement. Sat for Dtc. 28 was the suit for damages filed by Mildred A. Hinson, administratrix, estate of Thurston Farrell, against Urban and Virginia Frtise. The suit asks damages for the death of Farrell which occurred after he fell in the tavern owned by the defendants. Three suits were filed the past week: two suits for divorce, Udell Adams vs. Viola Adams and Mildred Hinson vs. Louis Hinson; also a suit for reformation of a deed filed by Jessie L. Shepard Lang-worthy and James Allen Shepard, vs. Columbian Club of Pacific, a charitable organization. UE Grows Expansion of services and work building to start, soon MC for Tiny Tot show is Ernie Heldman Official of the Tiny Tot show announced this week, that Ernie Heldman had been , selected to emcee the show. Heldman is featured magician on station KSD- TV in St. Louis. He .was contacted by the Rain bow girls, and was engaged for the show to be held in the Memor ial Auditorium on October 1 1th Plans for enlarging Union Elec-tric's Franklin District service building and works headquarters in Union have been announced by Colbert W. Lais, the company's local manager. The proiect is an indication of Franklin County in recent years, which has mad it necessary for Union Electric to increase its work forces and to expand its facilit'-to serve the area. Work is expected to start within the next few weeks on enlarging the structure at 845 Union Street. Included in the plans are an en larged office area, a new assembly room for line crews and other work forces and expanded dock and loadipg facilities. Less than a year ago, the Union business office was moved into the service building from its old location on Main Street. First op ened in March, 1955, the Service Building was designed to house line crews, tioublemen, estimators, inspectors, meter testers and the stores personnel. union hiectnc has also started preliminary operations on construction of a new Fran'din District headquarters builu.ng in Washington. Franklin county Donkey Club to meet in Sullivan The Franklin County Donkey Club will meet Thursday, September 27th at 7:30 p.m. CST at the V.F.W hall in Sullivan, located at intersection of old 66 and Mera mec State road. The guest speaker will be James E. Crowe, attorney, most active and influential Democrat of St. Louis, former City Counselor, and vice president of Lawyers Bar Association of St. Louis, member of the Board of Governors of State Bar Association. Refreshments will be served. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. van for Thursday night, also. Volley ball is rated as one of the top sports at Union High School, sharing the spotlight with basketball. Coaches Lorch and Goodman have been working out the volleyball teams regularly for the past few days. The line-up for the games against Hermann next Tuesday on the "A" team will be: Sally Ann Young, Patty Kinkead, Donna Wal-lis, Margie Herborn, Jane Lichte, Carol Helling, Joyce Woolen, Ruth Ellis, Linda Schaffcrkoettcr, Virginia Pohlman, and Carol Taggert. "B" Team line-up is: Marcella Bandermann, Judy Gullet, Carol Holt, Ann Brightwell, Wanda Wade, Nancy Hughes, Carol King, Joe Dean Oversehmidt, Mary Jo Davis, Sharon Jarvis, Betty Pohlman, Dorothy llerbst, and Mary Truel. 2 women hurt in upset of station wagon Two St. Louis women were in jured when their 1948 Willys Station wagon overturned on High way 50 near the junction with the Ox Road Tuesday morning at 8 30 a.m. Driving the car was the owner, Marjorie Elaine Bosch, 102 Jersey Avenue, Webster Groves, who started to pass' the car ahead but whipped back into line too fast when the car behind her honked for a pass. She lost control of her car which rolled down an embankment.She was taken to St. Francis Hospital with a broken nose and bruises. Alice Vogelc, 600 Lock-wood, Webster Groves, only pass cnger in the car, was also taken to St. Francis with a broken collar bone and scalp lacerations. Report on Girls' State heard by Legion Auxiliary Three members of Girls' State told of their experiences at the regular meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary held at the Memorial Auditorium in Union, Thursday night at eight o'clock. Miss Joan Brautigam, representative ot the Auxiliary, received a gift from the group presented by Mrs. Ralph Heeger, Girls' State chairman, after her talk. Miss Ann Busch, representing the P.T.A., and Miss Sally Young, representing the Union Chamber of Commerce, also reported to the group. Mrs. Melvin Pehle and Mrs. Wil-ma Osiek were named delegates to the Presidents and Secretaries Conference to be held at Jefferson City, Sept. 29 and 30. PTA to kick off membership drive The annual Parent Teachers membership drive will begin Friday, Sept. 21, with school children of the community competing for prizes for their respective groups. A $3.00 cash prize will be given to the room in each group bringing in the most memberships with the winning child in each grade receiving a cash prize of $1. Groups will consist of kindergarten through the fourth grade; fifth through eighth; and the ninth through the twelfth. FFA boys harvest bumper experimental corn crop Lee Young to be special judge in Hoemann'i absence Lee Young, Union attorney, has been appointed Special Judge to act in the absence of Probate Judge Edwin Hoemann. Judge Hoemann entered Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis Sunday for a routine check-up and expects to be away from his duties for about two weeks. Although another penny has now ben added to Missouri's gasoline tax, the state still has the lowest levy in the nation. W jf s$i V w. .rk 'y&rL j-w 4 Speaker chosen for Church Council convention Sunday Dr. O. R. Shields, for 17 years pastor of Lafayette Park Baptist church, St. Louis, will address the annual convention of Franklin County Council of Churches Sun- lay afternoon. Dr. Shields, vice-president of of Southern Baptist Convention of approximatly 30,000 churches, was director general of the Billy Graham crusade in St. Louis about 1953, and will act again in the same capacity. His subject for the address will he "Christian Imper atives for the World Today. Included in the convention pro gram will be the business of the annual meeting. Interest groups under leadership of standing com mittee chairmen will meet to plan activities for the ensuing year and officers for 1957 will be elect ed. The meeting will be held in the new educational building of St Peter's (Evangelical and Reform cd), Washington. Registration be gins at 1:45 p.m. The public is in vited. 167 bushels of corn to the acre was the goal achieved by the Union high school FFA chapter. The proud youngsters shown with some of the mammoth ears of corn are, left to right. Walker Jensen, Raymond Berger, Don Helling and Max Sisson. In 1942 the urn ground, located near the high school agricultural building produced only 35 bushels to the acre. Under the direction of Instructor James Callahan, the IN THE SERVICES Army Private Kenneth J. Elbert, 18, and Robert L. Hahne, n, of Washington, recently began the second phase of six " months of active duty under the Reserve Forces Act at Fort Dix, N. J.-. Elbert and Hahne are receiving 16 weeks of advanced individual infantry training. They recently completed eight weeks of basic combat training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Elbert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Urban J. Elbert, 729 W. Main St., is a 1956 graduate of St. Francis Borgia High School. Hahne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Hahne, 401 MacArthur, is a 1956 graduate of Washington High School. A2c Donald Lewis has been transferred from the Spang-Dahl- em air Dase in Spang, Germany to an air base at Wiesbaden, Ger many. He has been in Germanv 15 months. . . Minister from India to speak ar v.asco c & K church Special services will be held at St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church at Casco this Sunday. Honored speaker will be the Reverend Obed Wany of Raipur, India, who will speak at the Mission Festival to )je held at 10 in the morning. Rev. Wany come to the United States as a fraternal delegate to the general conference of the E&R churches at Lancaster, Pa. A fellowship dinner will be held at the noon hour. At 2:00 p. m. a Song Sing will get underway and Reverend John Alternbernd of Berger will be the speaker. Following that a second address will be made by Reverend Wany. The public is invited to attend this meeting. Convention of Catholic Union held in St. Clair St. Clair was the scene of a huge three-day annual convention of the Catholic Union of Missouri last weekend. Also participating was the Missouri branch of the National Catholic Women's Union. Registration was held at the St. Clare grade school building. The Rt. Reverend Aloysius A. Stumpf, who were Mesdames William Calloway, Donald R. Clayton, Richard Berkel and Belmont Johnson, accompanied by Mrs. C. W. Maune. Sunday morning a parade from the school grounds was staged by the Knights of Columbus. A great banquet was held Sunday evening, V.F., f astor of the St. Clare parish, and during a social hour at eight boys applied 50 pounds of NH-4 and 300 pounds of 20-15-10 fertilizer per acre. Then the boys set to work planting and plowing. When school opened this year the class started getting their crop harvested, and it was a bumper crop. Inspection showed a count of 19,000 stalks of healthy corn to the acre, and the final tally showed a production of 167 bushels to the acre. (Dickey's Studio) delivered the welcoming address. The chairman and co-chairman of the convention, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ritter of St. Clair gave their remarks and the convention reports were made. A short keynote address was delivered by the Rt. Rev. Monsig-nor A. T. Strauss, V. F. On Saturday evening vocal se lections were given by Mrs. Robert Johnson and the "Mellow-Dettes" Celebrant in the evening, a square dance was held. The convention was closed Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the SL Clare church. Installation and Departure ceremonies were by Rt Rev. Hon-signor A. A. Wempe, Moderator, St. Louis and St Louis County District League. Solemn benediction by Rt. Rev. A. A. Stumpf. pastor of the St Clare church. I